I'd say so. The economy is looking to tank yet again (how many dips will this make?), we've got more people on food stamps than the population of Spain, even the Gray Lady admits taxes are eating people alive, Panetta tells us Barry was AWOL on 9/11, and Zero's Arab Spring is handing the crazies control of North Africa.

Every thing that everyone is getting all excited about sound like symptoms of the cold making the rounds in our schools. Sweating, needing a drink of water so you can talk, I'd hate to be a political figure these days. You have to be 100% perfect all the time.

Unlless you're Obama, of course. He could committ a crime on the air and the media would cover it up.

You're not protecting millionaires for fairness but because they don't consume much of their income.

The rest goes to raising the productivity of people to the point that people have economically viable jobs. They make stuff people are willing to pay for.

In the government's hands, it would go to economically unviable jobs, a dead weight on the economy making stuff people are not willing to pay for. Each item is a loss, but a payoff to an interest group.